"Simply doubling or tripling or quadrupling the money is not going to address the core problems," said Andrew J. Rotherham, director of the schools project for the Progressive Policy Institute, which, along with the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative think tank, released the report that called for reform.
"That's the core of the problem," said a senior EU official dealing with Turkey.
Divergent views of progress are at the core of the problem, said Ms. Galef.
"We have to address the core of the problem," said Buthaina Shaaban, a Syrian cabinet minister, speaking by telephone from Damascus.
"That begins to address the core problem," he said.
The core problem, they said, is that the agencies are paid by companies to help them structure financial instruments, which the agencies then grade.
"It's a complete reversal of the truth to call this a Common Core problem," he said.
"The key messaging strategy here is to try to get people to focus on what is the core problem," he said.
"We were so focused on the fuel rods and melted reactor cores that we underestimated the water problem," said Tatsujiro Suzuki, vice chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, a government body that helped draw up Tepco's original cleanup plan.
"The key is looking at the core problem and saying that court is an asset which needs to be used - so what is the best way of encouraging the local community to use it?
